-- The Canadian indie rock band Royal City, who have counted Feist and Final Fantasy among their collaborators, are about to get the retrospective treatment. On June 23, Asthmatic Kitty will release the compilation Royal City, which includes a Strokes cover recorded with Edwyn Collins.

-- Deastro, the synthpop project from Detroit's Randolph Chabot, will release the Moondagger full-length on June 23 via Ghostly International. If his MySpace page is to be believed, he'll follow that up with an interplanetary tour. Ambitious!